Jenny Joelson: Four Classical Duos for Viola and Cello - COMPACT DISCS

Title: Four Classical Duos for Viola and Cello
Artist: Jenny Joelson
Label: Toccata Next
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 5060640070356
Genre: Classical Artists
Release Date: 2025-04-04
Number of Discs: 1

For the past two centuries or so, making music has largely been a public business, with paying audiences listening to professional musicians. But for most of western history, outside of formal and religious occasions and local festivities, music-making was largely a domestic affair, with individuals playing for their own pleasure. Most of the music written for the drawing room has long been lost from sight, and it's composers forgotten, the two heard here - the Austrian Cajetan Wutky and German-English John Henry (né Justus Heinrich) Griesbach - being cases in point. Their Haydnesque string duos, only recently rescued from obscurity in modern publications, hint at the pleasure their first patrons would have found in performing them.

Tracks:
1.1 Duo No. 1 in C Major, Op. 2-I. Allegro
1.2 Duo No. 1 in C Major, Op. 2-II. Andante Moderato
1.3 Duo No. 1 in C Major, Op. 2-III. Rondo. Allegro
1.4 Duo No. 2 in G Major, Op. 1-I. Adagio - Allegro Con Spirito
1.5 Duo No. 2 in G Major, Op. 1-II. Rondo
1.6 Duo No. 3 in C Major, Op. 1-I. Allegro Moderato
1.7 Duo No. 3 in C Major, Op. 1-II. Siciliano
1.8 Duo No. 3 in C Major, Op. 1-III. Rondo. Allegretto
1.9 Duo No. 2 in G Major, Op. 2-I. Allegro
1.10 Duo No. 2 in G Major, Op. 2-II. Andante Moderato
1.11 Duo No. 2 in G Major, Op. 2-III. Rondo. Allegro. Menuetto Grazioso